Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-12-09


Over in Kittanning the hotel keepers are
lready circulating their petitions for license
Our druggists have lately been doing an
immense business in cough syrups.
AFTER Monday next the store keepers of
Butler will discontinue closing at PM.
1T is said that several large new business
locks will be built in Butler nextsummer.
The Councils of Pittsburg are having q
kreat time over their new charter ordinance
Will McCandless has painted q very
Ieat sign on the "Hotel Brady"
-Zslienople has soul-stirring scandal on
ands.
A fire in tie I'd story Of Heck's clothing
tore, Wednesday morning, destroyed $3.50
Forfh of underclothing.
The Worth Mutual Fire Insurance Co
Fill hold their annual meeting on the 10th
y Jan. See notice.
The residence of Mr.. John Magee, on the
Feek about two miles abo We Harmony is re-
orted to have been destroyed by fire last
Wednesday.
1T is reported that the judges of the
3orthwestern districts of the State are prepar-
BIZ rules for uniform system of action under
be new license law.
Ira McJunkin, ESQ.,, has removed his Of
&c from the Reiber building. to No. IL, E
efferson st Ira is q respon sibIe attorney
Be his card in another place.
The Teachers Institute will begin in the
court room, Butler, on Monday afternoon
bee. 26, and continue till Friday afternoon.
lee programme IN another place.
An exchange says that certain farmer
lad bee piliDg up stumps. Bees are known
be very industrious, but we should think
hat such lab0rious work as piling stumps
would ruin q bee for the honey business.
The next annual convention of the State
Wool Growers Association. will be held az
4ew Castle on Tuesday and Wednesday. the
0th and 2ist inst. All wool growers are in
ited tn attend.
Thousands of dollars 90 from this town
very year to Pittsburg, Greenville and other
pWns for made-to-order clothing, and if an
ther frst-class merchant tailoring establish
1ohs "'uiu uVt Poy IL DuLicA VIC uou kuU"
that would.
-Connoquennessing twp, is excited over
be sudden death of yonng man named
Beighley. son of J. Conrad Beighley of that
|ownship. He was ut a dance at a house
RIcng the road. Tuesday night, was alive and
yell ct o'clock. and was found dead short
jstAnce from the house an hour or two after
e. yU n Dn-..- .L~-.I 80. . 0~...
|uilt" last week made by the UnionvilIe
ti1 Jennie Stoops, daughter Of VIM. Stoo ps
II franklin twp. who is now a missionary at
fasti, Utah Territory. The quilt is
)0x87 inches in size. was made entirely by
fand, Is very handsome, and is very credit
|bj. to the Society.
Some extraordinary discrepancies iu the
ksessments o. this town are being brought to
jcht. Il has be.,n discovered that properties
Gorth ten thousand dollars are assessed at
|ut few hundred, an. that properties worth
jut few hundred are assessed at nearly
heir full value. The Triencial Assessment
|nmes next year. and the people of this town
bust have a care as to whom they select for
assessors.
Joseph Vanderlin. Esq, Of this town
Ind his brother-in-law John Fl. Kelly of AL
bona have lately taken a large lot Of gas
|exees in Cambria and other counties to the
northwest Of Altoona with the idea of sup-
S1yiDg that and other towns in the vicinity
Ffth natural gas. Mr.. A. w. Mccullough of
Butler, succeeded in getting some New York
capitalists into the enterprise and the chances
5es that they will all make some money out
Sfft. The gas Will have TO be piped over the
- L. . ktn< ~ L.
The passenger train on the p & w r r
from Allegheny dne here at 1890 p m, and
bf which Mr. Nichols is conductor and Mr.
Brscken engineer, struck the wagon of
Sesmer nsmed O'NeiI at Wittmer station in
elIeeheny county, last Wednesday morning.
hnd Mr. O'NeiI was almost instantly killed.
He had plenty of time to jump off his wagon
hfter his horses balked. and his little boy
bid so. but he was made helpless from fright
Ind sat still until struck. A strange featu re
kfthe accident was that part of the wagon
khich uaF sent flying struck an Italian la
horer s:asding near the scene and sliced of
apge part Of his scalp.
--Nessrs. j. 4 B. Kemper, the enterpris-
br harness makers of this town, have pur.
|hssed great many hides this fall aud win
|sr, but they have now taken their advertise
bents from the papers for the reason that To-
Pards the end ot the year. the hides become
fgrubby" During the sumner some sort Of
ID insect stines the cattle and deposits eggs
IN their hides. The eggs hatch into worms
urIng tine winter. which feed upon the skin
Ind greatly impair its valne a. hide for
baking leather; but towards spring they
|uYn into insects and come out, and the
POUND in the skin hes's up. This ia = bit Of
Natural history that we did not know before.
bnd suppose that it may be novel to some Of
Aur readers